Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1976
Abstract
Though closely identified with the American West, Edgar Wilson Nye was born in the East and lived most of his life in the Midwest and South. Born in Shirley, Maine, on August 25, 1850, the eldest son of Franklin and Elizabeth Mitchell (Loring) Nye, Edgar was to remain a New Englander for only two years. As his future friend and lecture partner James Whitcomb Riley would later write in a comic account of Nye’s life, “At two years of age he took his parents by the hand, and, telling them that Piscataquis County was no place for them, he boldly struck out for St. Croix County, Wisconsin, where the hardy pioneer soon made a home for his parents” (J. B. Pond, Eccentricities of Genius, pp. 241-42).
Recommended Citation
Kesterson, David B. Bill Nye: The Western Writings. Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1976. Digital. Western Writers Series, 22.